Raking over the embers of last night’s bonfire I was blasting Alice Cooper’s Hey Stoopid at full volume. I suddenly realised how much I still love that totemic rock metal. Bombastic tunes, cheesy lyrics and shock rock videos, that whole rock and metal scene was as significant a part of my growing up as video [...]
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Autumn colours
Posted in arts, natural world, personal, photography, tagged me, nature, photos on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Out in the meadow and I saw these leaves. So time for a quick snap and my first posting from the Samsung Galaxy S2.
More gaming nostlagia
Posted in arts, culture, entertainment, gaming, tech, tagged arts, games, gaming on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Boing Boing, one of my favourite quirky blogs, has a great piece of nostalgia for fellow geek gamers. It’s a compilation of classic arcade game deaths. Funny how, for a whole generation, these blocky, pixellated images evoke memories of wet Saturday afternoons hunched over the latest state of the art console. Video games were an [...]
Katie’s camera blog and Ellie Williams on WordPress
Posted in arts, blogs, tagged art, arts, blogs, photography on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just added a new category to my links for Arts, Culture Etc and have added two great blogs (see the sidebar). Katie’s camera blog is a smashing photography site, where Katie Johnson, a professional photographer, indulges her creative side. Ellie Williams is of course my sister’s blog – also a professional artist! I hope you [...]
Otterly brilliant picture
Posted in arts, the sea, tagged environment, nature, photography on October 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Over the years, the Metro newspaper has had some great pictures in it. Today’s Metro had another example of brilliant wildlife photography with sea otters snoozing off the coast of Moss Landing, California. Beautiful! (Picture: Michael Yang/Rex Features)
Tea Genius
Posted in arts, culture, entertainment, popular culture, television, tagged ads, adverts, arts, entertainment, television on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Every now and then you see a piece of advertising genius. I know it’s not completely new, but I love the style and sentiment in this ad for Twinings Tea (I am clearly feeling soppy after a long day!):
Poems, Prayers and Promises… Do they still write them like this?
Posted in arts, entertainment, history, music, personal, tagged entertainment, history, john denver, me, music on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have an eclectic musical taste that roams the genres and I can find myself listening to anything from Finzi and Mozart, to Counting Crows, The Jayhawks, Guns N’Roses, Linkin Park and Sick Puppies, all via the Pet Shop Boys, “Ibiza dance” and Lady Ga Ga. Not forgetting of course Led Zeppelin, U2, Nightwish, The [...]
Lego goes loco… Russian-style #lego
Posted in arts, entertainment, film, gaming, internet, popular culture, tagged animation, computers, film, gaming, lego, me, team fortress, toys on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lego was always a favourite toy. Spaceships, towns, castles… But I never got quite as creative as the Russian who has mixed Lego with the online game Team Fortress 2 and stop-motion animation to create an ultra-violent tribute to one of gaming’s most popular online shooters. As a gamer, a film enthusiast and a Lego [...]
The best children’s television programme in the world ever…? (Take 1) #tv
Posted in arts, culture, entertainment, history, television, tagged cartoons, children's tv, entertainment, television, tv on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My future brother-in-law, Mr Bagnall, reminded me of one television programme that must be one of my all-time favourite childhood memories. Who could have thought that a five minute short animation of the simplest kind could create such a comforting sense of timelessness? When so many of today’s children’s programmes are such a disruptive mess [...]
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With far too many interests, I've never been known to be short of an opinion - to the infuriation of friends and family alike. As a result, over the years I've come to recognise that "contradictory" and "contrary" are not unfair descriptions of me.My Lib Dem politics, my doubt-stricken Christianity, my love of revolution, my fear of change, literature, art, music, writing, my fascination with new tech, gaming and MMOs, diabetes, my passion for poker, my disdain for gambling, Cornwall, Bavaria, the places that inspire and depress me, my relief in lonely countryside and my attraction to the cruel crush of the city: at some point it will all end up here.
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I am a center-left moderate social libertarian
Left: 1.64, Libertarian: 3.29
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